The article addresses a characterization of the notion of case and in particular the nature of ergative case. We argue that the fundamental oblique case of natural languages (the genitive/dative) corresponds to an elementary inclusion or part-whole predicate, whose internal argument (the whole, or possessor) is the DP which the case embeds, while its external argument is a DP (the part or possessum) coinciding either with the head of a genitive construction or with the theme of a ditransitive verb.
OBLIQUE CASE AND INDO-EUROPEAN ERGATIVITY SPLITS / Manzini, Maria Rita; Savoia, Leonardo Maria. - In: REVUE ROUMAINE DE LINGUISTIQUE. - ISSN 0035-3957. - STAMPA. - LX:(2015), pp. 297-315.
OBLIQUE CASE AND INDO-EUROPEAN ERGATIVITY SPLITS
MANZINI, MARIA RITA;SAVOIA, LEONARDO MARIA
2015
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The article addresses a characterization of the notion of case and in particular the nature of ergative case. We argue that the fundamental oblique case of natural languages (the genitive/dative) corresponds to an elementary inclusion or part-whole predicate, whose internal argument (the whole, or possessor) is the DP which the case embeds, while its external argument is a DP (the part or possessum) coinciding either with the head of a genitive construction or with the theme of a ditransitive verb.
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